Markov Chain algorithm is used to sample color from webcam captures, fine art paintings and news figures pixel by pixel (one pop-up by one pop-up window). While sampling, generative chords is created based on the placement and size of each pop-up window.

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Sites and web applications becomes the most important virual utlities of daily life, while pop-up windows is other side, like trash, more or less. The instict of clicking the close button was trained and became a human nature. Pop up Synth was built originally based on a weird question I asked: Can I recyle pop-up windows?

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"Making collage" is one of the answers I gave to this meaningless question and it echos the found object idea.

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Using browser window as art materials is not a new idea. Back to 2009, Micheal Demer have created Color Field Paintings, which generates a series of browser windows, and each with a randomly assigned color based upon parameters established for each piece.

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Color Field Painting (2009), Micheal Demer

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Modern browsers are contrained as rectangle, and the minimal size is 100 x 100 PX square, like a super large pixel. Street artists Invader, Pantone color artist Nick Smith, have done pixel style painting in their own art practice context.

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Invader's work

Nick Smith's work

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What if the browser windows are not only the segment of painting, and also sound? What if the the browser windows can perform a show itself?

It's a open playground waiting for algorithm and creative interactions. I made this project, adding placement(dragging), size(resizing), sequences and synths to each of the window, and create a web music toy for children and adult to gain knowledge about browser and it's potential.

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Digital space has became another public space to make discourse. The pop up animation is naturally a strong expression. In the latest version, data base and scraping feature were added to recreate the overwhelming and informtive browsering experience in a short audio/visual performance.